
“I was talking with an old chap I know. We started talking about poppies”
“I was talking with an old chap I know. We started talking about poppies”
On Remembrance Sunday, November 8th 2020, Orkney remembered all those who had suffered and died as a result of war and conflict.
“It was fantastic to see the education pack in use and how well the pupils responded to it”
Nowadays you may see people wearing different colours of poppies symbolising the wider effects of war.
“History might as well be water, chastising this shore;
for we learn nothing from your endless sacrifice. ” Carol Ann Duffy ‘Wound in Time
Noel Donaldson’s images from last year’s ceramic poppy display and rehearsals around events taking place.
“Emotions pushed just so far back/ for fear his friends should see him crack;”
“Never such innocence,/Never before or since,”
Nowadays you may see people wearing different colours of poppies symbolising the wider effects of war.